Hushang of Shirvan

Hushang (Persian: هوشنگ) was the Shirvanshah from 1372/73 to 1382. He was the son and successor of Kavus I, under whom the Shirvanshah kingdom came under the rule of the Jalayirid Sultanate (1335–1432). Hushang was killed by his subjects in 1382, thus marking the end of the Yazidi/Kasranid line.[1] The Shirvanshah throne was subsequently taken over by Ibrahim I (r. 1382–1417), a distant relative of the Yazidi/Kasranid family.[1] This marked the start of the Darbandi line.[2]

Hushang
Miniature depicting Hushang being shown the Farhad u Shirin by its author Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Arif Ardabili. Stored in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.
Shirvanshah
Reign1372/73 – 1382
PredecessorKavus I
SuccessorIbrahim I
Died1382
DynastyKasranids
FatherShirvanshah Kavus
ReligionSunni Islam

The poet Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Arif Ardabili dedicated his Persian masnavi (poem written in rhyming couplets) Farhad u Shirin to Hushang.[3] A miniature copy depicting this event is stored in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.[4]

References
  1. Barthold & Bosworth 1997, p. 489.
  2. Minorsky 1958, p. 130.
  3. Çağman & Tanindi 2011, p. 225.
  4. Çağman & Tanindi 2011, p. 243.

Sources
  • Barthold, W. & Bosworth, C.E. (1997). "S̲h̲īrwān S̲h̲āh". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume IX: San–Sze (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 488–489. ISBN 978-90-04-10422-8.
  • Çağman, Fílíz; Tanindi, Zeren (2011). "Selections from Jalayirid Books In the Libraries of Istanbul" (PDF). Muqarnas. 28: 243, Fig.24. ISSN 0732-2992. JSTOR 23350289.
  • Minorsky, Vladimir (1958). A History of Sharvān and Darband in the 10th-11th Centuries. W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd.

Further reading
  • Bosworth, C. E. (2011). "Šervānšāhs". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul.


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